Specifications

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FTP Root and Share Points
The “FTP Root and Share Points” option gives access—for both authenticated and
anonymous users—to the FTP root and any FTP share points to which the users have
access privileges, as shown in the following figure.
Users access FTP share points through symbolic links attached to the FTP Root
directory. The symbolic links are created automatically when you create the FTP share
points.
Note that in this example, /Users, /Volumes/Data, and /Volumes/Photos are FTP share
points. All users can see the home directories of other users because they are
subdirectories of the Users share point.
Important: Regardless of the user environment setting, anonymous users and users
without home directories are always logged into the “FTP Root and Share Points”
environment.
etc
system
Library
Data
Volumes
FTP server
FTP root
FTP Root
Looks like “/ ”
to anonymous
FTP users
Looks like “/ ”
when accessing
as user “Bob”
Looks like “/ ”
when accessing
as user “Betty”
FTP share point
incorporated
within virtual root
Data
Betty
Bob
Users
Photos
Photos
Symbolic link
bin
FTP Root